cushmandesign.com had been a dairy farm before they bought
it in 1980. The serious landscaping began
in 1987. Six years later, when Munger got a
golf cart for his 50th birthday, the genie was
out of the bottle and the garden expanded
quickly. Standing in the back of the cart like
a bareback rider while Nooney drives, he
likes to trim the wavy top of a serpentine
hedge.

Almost a mile of looping paths leads
the visitor on a journey past rare species
planted in woods, meadows, and allées
integrated with hundreds of Nooney sculptures, many for sale. Garden features incorporate spiral paving, tractor seats, twirling
roof ventilators, and an 8-foot-high steel
arch of acrobats framing a Japanese Tea
House. The GrassAcre adds a meadow of